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Free Paper Cups!

By offering good quality paper cups to offices and workplaces free of charge, Cups Media offers a new, exciting and non-traditional marketing tactics for advertisers and money saving solutions for small, medium and large companies in Singapore. 

Used by the Chief Executives, decision makers, visitors, guests and employees in offices during the workday, these branded advertising cups are perfect for hot and cold beverages. These cups are used during their official meetings or informal discussions. 

Smart advertisers and marketing professionals from various industries have already started to engage with Cups Media to incorporate this innovative marketing tactics to promote their brands, products and services.

Read The Rest of This Article | Comments | Advertising

Personalize Your Website with a Virtual Spokesperson

Any small business owner looking to humanize their online customer interaction may want to take a note of this new feature released by SitePal. The new feature, called 3D Photoface, allows users to instantly create a lifelike 3D avatar by simply uploading a photo. 

Read More | Comments | Onine Services

Alphabet Plates

All Alphabet Plates products are made with a truly special ingredient: personalization. You'll find designs featuring your child's name, initials, characterizations, hobbies and favorite foods - all served up with bold colors and tasty graphics. A tasty meal indeed.

Read More | Comments | Consumer Goods

Limited Edition Finroo

Finroo is an on-going design competition showing you the cream of the crop. A limited edition clothing company, Finroo makes high quality design T-shirts from artists around the globe. Anyone can participate in creating a design, get commission, and for every product sold Finroo donates to charity.

Read More | Comments | Consumer Goods

USB Massager

Idea Shop's super-small massager (W3,500) has drawn the admiration of workers struggling through the day and students who want to loosen up during long hours of test preparation. Just plug in to your USB port and get it to work at removing the discomfort of your body.

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Fallen Leaves made into Dinnerware

Dwork found himself marveling at the sight of the makeshift plates local peasant women were hand-crafting from fallen palm leaves, which they pressed in crude ovens along the side of the road. The natural process gave Dwork the idea to start VerTerra Dinnerware, an eco-friendly maker of compostable plates.

Read More | Comments | Environmental

5050BIZ Social Business Network

5050BIZ is a business-networking Web site that allows you to stay connected with your team, monitor daily activities so you stay focused on your goals. The state-of-the-art tools available inside of 5050BIZ virtual office will improve efficiency among employees and allow you to open new doors.

Read More | Comments |  Online & Social Networks

Tweet and Print with TweetBookz

Let your tweets exist in real world! TweetBookz allows you to create and order high quality books of your tweets. Soft and hard cover versions are available in four unique designs. The books have full color covers and inside pages of black and white.  Now you can see your tweets in full colour glory.

Read More | Comments |  Media & Publishing

Money and Marketing: 5 Simple Ways to Increase Your Cash Flow Right Now

While a rosier global economic forecast may still be a few months away, smart entrepreneurs are taking control of their cash flow now, and wisely implementing simple strategies to increase how much they make and how much they keep.

Read More | Comments | Finance & Capital | By Kendall SummerHawk

Three Women Entrepreneurs and Their Important Considerations For Launching a New Product or Service

Launching a product can mean lots of things to a business. It can mean branching out and snagging a new buyer in a different market. It can also mean creating residual income for a service-based business. And it may be just the thing needed to turn a struggling business into a cash cow.

Read More | Comments |  Entrepreneurs | Article by Michele DeKinder-Smith

Defining Your Talent Advantage For Life Success

The challenge we all face is recognizing and developing those skills to their fullest potentials – thus, creating our Talent Advantage. An unused talent is just potential, nothing more. A talent that is recognized and applied is a true TALENT – something at which you excel, receive recognition from others and is satisfying to do. It’s your Talent Advantage.

Read More | Comments |  Work Life | By Lynda-Ross Vega

When Bad Things Happen to Good Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

It's an unfortunate fact of life (and business). Out of the blue you get a nasty email from someone. Sometimes it's about an article you've written. Sometimes it's accompanied by a refund request. Sometimes it doesn't seem like it's tied to anything at all.  

Read More | Comments | People & Relationships | Article by Michele PW

Smarter Business Marketing: Stop Falling Into the Marketing 'Do Over' Trap

I recently spent two full days with a Private Platinum Intensive client and discovered something that astonished me. After carefully considering everything she had created or delivered in the past few years it became crystal clear she was sitting on a goldmine she didn't even know she had.

Read More | Comments |  Sales & Marketing | Article by Rachna Jain

The Secret to Successful Relationships

Have you ever been in a conversation where it was obvious the other person couldn't wait for you to finish talking in order to say something? We all have I’m sure, and it’s not a great feeling. If you focus only on what’s in it for you rather than what you can contribute, it’ll fall flat or end uncomfortably.

Read More | Comments |  Success Attitudes | Article by Gary Jordan

Podcast Creation in 3 Easy Steps

For a long time I was reluctant to add podcasting to my list building arsenal thinking it was simply another task on my already long To Do list and, to be honest, it sounded tedious… manually submitting my podcast episodes to the various podcast directories so that people knew they were there.

Read More | Comments | Online Business | Article by Tracey Lawton

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